Gordon Brown is an odds-on bet at 8:11 to be out of office by next September’s Labour conference; according to William Hill today.
The bookmaker is also convinced - or its customers are - that Alistair Darling will be out on his ear within a year. Odds of 2:5 that he won’t be Chancellor by next conference. Or 7:4 that he will still be in the job.
Jim Pickard and Alex Barker, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene.
Alex Barker has been an FT political correspondent since July 2007. He joined the paper in 2005, after working in current affairs television.
Jim Pickard joined the FT's lobby team in January 2008, having been a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
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